With unemployment climbing throughout the state, many Iowans are looking for new career opportunities.NewBoCo believes its DeltaV Code School can help address that need – and the organization is putting its money where its mouth is, by investing more than $300,000 into making its programs...
Kirkwood Community College is offering several Concurrent Enrollment Courses for high school students this summer. All classes will be online.Sections Available at No Cost>Fundamentals of Oral Communication, 3 cr. Studies basic communication theory and practice including communication process, interpersonal relationships, small group interaction and public...
Kirkwood Interactive Camps for Kids are exciting and educational summer camps for youth ages 8-15. KICK camps are designed around career exploration and provide fun, hands-on activities that promise to develop and build key skills for future success. No matter what career field you want to explore,...
Traditionally, the ICR Future Career and College Fair would be held in a conference center where high school students and their families would gather together with employers and colleges to explore future opportunities. To meet the safety needs of our community during COVID-19, the event...
Students who enter grades 5-9 in the fall are invited to join the University of Iowa Jacobson Institute virtual entrepreneurship camp sessions the weeks of June 15-19 and 22-26.Each 75-minute session will be engaging and fun. Campers will have the opportunity to work with other participants...
NewBoCo is going virtual for now! CoderDojo is a free K-5 STEAM program under NewBoCo K-12 Education that encourages creativity, fosters entrepreneurship, and helps kids learn to code. Attendees are welcomed at 1:30 pm and will experience virtual “stations” for online coding activities such as Hour...
This article was originally published by NewBoCo on November 19, 2019. Opportunity. No matter what a student decides they want to be when they grow up, Computer Science is as fundamental a part of their education as Language Arts, Biology, or Mathematics is in the 21st century...
This was originally published by NewBoCo on November 12, 2019. We are excited to offer a code camp for female-identifying students in grades 8-12! GirlsCode++ is our popular one day event to teach 8th-12th grade students about programming. The beginner group will learn HTML and CSS to build...
This article was originally published by KCRG on October 17, 2019. Students from across eastern Iowa took a field trip Thursday to learn about an important field of science. The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics showed students some of the lab work that goes into...
This article was originally published by KWWL on October 15, 2019. Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids started offering online "competency based" classes this fall. The program places a higher value on past and current work experience, allowing students to complete their degrees faster. "I think...
